"This is what they all come to..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!”

“Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.”

“Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.”

“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”

“The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.”

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.”

“Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.”

“The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.”