A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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.