The true method of knowledge is experiment.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.