While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.