An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

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

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.