The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

To make something you have to be something.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.