Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

Columbus gave the world another world.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Art is a delayed echo.