To Find Recreation In Amusement Is Not

We Do Not Rest Satisfied With The Present.... So Imprudent We Are That We Wander In The Times Which Are Not Ours And Do Not Thinkof The Only One Which Belongs To Us; And So Idle Are We That We Dream Of Those Times Which Are No More And Thoughtlessly Overlook That Which Alone Exists. For The Present Is Generally Painful To Us.

The Entire Ocean Is Affected By A Single Pebble.

If A Soldier Or Labourer Complain Of The Hardship Of His Lot, Set Him To Do Nothing.

All Of Our Miseries Prove Our Greatness. They Are The Miseries Of A Dethroned Monarch.

To Speak Freely Of Mathematics, I Find It The Highest Exercise Of The Spirit; But At The Same Time I Know That It Is So Useless That I Make Little Distinction Between A Man Who Is Only A Mathematician And A Common Artisan. Also, I Call It The Most Beautiful Profession In The World; But It Is Only A Profession.