As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.