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.
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn’t really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
The little man is still a man.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
I don’t know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.