Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"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."

"By seeking and blundering we learn."