A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!