One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.