“Young, gifted, and destitute...”

“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even truer. But destitution, dear sir, destitution is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul , but in destitution-never-no-one. For destitution a man is not chased out of society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, for in destitution I am the first to humiliate my self.”

“The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.”

“Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.”

“Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.”

“Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.”