The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

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