The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.