At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

To make something you have to be something.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed