We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
Reading means borrowing.
You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.