Ignorance Is Less Remote From The Truth

We Are A Free People; And Now You Have Planted In Our Country The Title Deeds Of Our Future Slavery. You Are Neither God Nor Demon; Who Are You, Then, To Make Slaves? Orou! You Understand The Language Of These Men, Tell Us All, As You Have Told Me, What They Have Written On This Sheet Of Metal: This Country Is Ours. This Country Yours? And Why? Because You Have Walked Thereon? If A Tahitian Landed One Day On Your Shores, And Scratched On One Of Your Rocks Or On The Bark Of Your Trees: This Country Belongs To The People Of Tahiti - What Would You Think?

Only God And Some Few Rare Geniuses Can Keep Forging Ahead Into Novelty.

Our Observation Of Nature Must Be Diligent, Our Reflection Profound, And Our Experiments Exact. We Rarely See These Three Means Combined; And For This Reason, Creative Geniuses Are Not Common.

Gaiety Is A Quality Of Ordinary Men. Genius Always Presupposes Some Disorder In The Machine.

Only The Bad Man Is Alone.