We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?