The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Lost time is never found again.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany. . . . It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?