God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.