A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

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

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.