Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.