One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Learning is the art of ignoring.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?