Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

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

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.