It is opposition that makes us productive.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.