They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.