The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God’s might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it.
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
Men’s prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .
A world without love would be no world.
Gray is the color of all theory.
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
In comradeship is danger countered best.