"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity."
"The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it."
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."
"There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."