Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.