You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly … - Carl Friedrich Gauss

Allein die Schule des Lebens muss lehren, nur das Erreichbare zu wollen, und das Gute nicht deswegen zu verschmähen, weil noch etwas Besseres denkbar ist.

Dark are the paths which a higher hand allows us to traverse here... let us hold fast to the faith that a finer, more sublime solution of the enigmas of earthly life will be present, will become part of us.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. So there are mere philologists, mere jurists, mere soldiers, mere merchants, etc. To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.