On all the peaks lies peace.
The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.