The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.