God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes