Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.