The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.