Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.