“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
