In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.