One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.