While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.