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The great and solemn spirit that pervades the intellectual labor [of science] arises from the sublime consciousness of striving toward the infinite, and of grasping all that is revealed to us amid the boundless and inexhaustible fullness of creation, development, and being.
Alexander von Humboldt
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We had now entered the notorious county of Tipperary, in which more murders and assaults are committed in one year than in the whole Kingdom of Saxony in five.
Johann Georg Kohl
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Our earth is a star among the stars; and should not we who are on it prepare ourselves by it for the contemplation of the universe and its Author?
Carl Ritter
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Walter Raleigh
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