Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
