"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.”

“There are no rules for felicity.”

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”

“By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.”

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.”

“I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”