I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

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.