The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.