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.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.