Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

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

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.