A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.