Albrecht Durer Quote by Peter Frankopan

“The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work. —Albrecht Durer”

— Elise Broach

“Gold was the attribute of the great Inca sun god and represented his generative powers – gold was described as the ‘sweat of the…

— Neil MacGregor

“Now the moon of the Aztecs is at the zenith, and all the world lies still. Full and white, the white of bones, the…

— Cornell Woolrich

“the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. —JOHANNES KEPLER”

— Scott E. Page

“The best artifact was the calendar of the ancients, a great carved piece of stone as big as a kitchen, circular, bolted to the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher's stone (much more easily discovered than the object…

— Charles Dickens

“The raw elements of gold and silver are refined and purified by intense heat. The same is true for you and me. To attain…

— Jason Versey

“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The splendor of God is displayed in the stars with the magnificent of the moon.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.”

— Stephen M. Barr

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

— Horace