Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.