"The spectacle of Nature is always new,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much”

“I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.”

“Love grants in a momentWhat toil can hardly achieve in an age.[Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die LiebeWas Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]”

“You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.”

“California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.”

“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”

“But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.”

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.”

“But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?”