“I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.”

“I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”

“It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.[Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos & generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.]”

“Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.”

“Life is too small a container for certain individuals.”

“It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths.”