A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.