Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.