Saya yakin ujian pertama bagi orang besar adalah kerendahan hati. - John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.