The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.