Every ist writes his own autobiography.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.