A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.