It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

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

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.