It is opposition that makes us productive.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.