A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

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

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.