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

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

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