He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

One must be an inventor to read well.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.