To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.