O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

I wish to work miracles.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.