In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.