Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.