We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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.

The proud man is forsaken of God.