Who said “The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”?

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don't stop to marvel.”

“To innovate is not to reform.”

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”

“You can never plan the future by the past.”