Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!