Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.