When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.