Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. - Immanuel Kant

...но и в том, что должно быть творением прекрасного искусства, часто обнаруживается гений, лишенный вкуса, или вкус, лишенный гения.

There can be only one reason why we must do what duty demands, and that is that we demand it of ourselves.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.