We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

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

On every mountain height is rest.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?