Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.