If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
Pity makes suffering contagious.
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Great intellects are skeptical.
Beware of spitting against the wind!
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.