Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.