Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

All hail, Queen Shit-of-Liesville!

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.