The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.