You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

There is moderation even in excess.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

A man's fate is his own temper.