Willing is not enough, we must do.

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.