A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

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

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

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