The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

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.