Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.