Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Let there be truth between us.