What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.