The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
Over all the mountain tops is peace.
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.