Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.