Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.