“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”

“There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.”

“Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.”

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

“It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.”

“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”