You are, when all is done-just what you are.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell