Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.