The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.