It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.