We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.