The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. – Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951