Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."

"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."

"In art the best is good enough."

"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."