Those who never have time do least

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

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

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.