I don't want to be a champion only on the court, I want to be a champion in life.
I am not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful; that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.
The melancholy science from which I make this offering to my friend relates to a region that from time immemorial was regarded as the true field of philosophy, but which, since the latter's conversion into method, has lapsed into intellectual neglect, sententious whimsy, and finally oblivion.