Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.