When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

What a man does not know is greater than he.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.