How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe