To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.