Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.