There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

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

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.