It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.