"All perishable is but an allegory...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”

“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”

“Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.”

“Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.”

“The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.”

“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”

“All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.”

“The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.”

“No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.”