Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.