To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.