The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.