Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.