Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.