Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nowhere would anyone grant that science and poetry can be united. They forgot that science arose from poetry, and failed to see that a change of times might beneficently reunite the two as friends, at a higher level and to mutual advantage.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.