To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.