It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.