Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.