Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.