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- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. — Voltaire
- The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced. — Hermann von Helmholtz
- The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. — Hermann von Helmholtz
- Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. — Hermann von Helmholtz