It is opposition that makes us productive.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

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.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.