Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.