Ideas too are a life and a world.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.