Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.