Before the days of Kepler the heavens declared the glory of the Lord.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected mens natural sentiment in the face of death.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things; our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.