Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

Writing is busy idleness.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.