The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
Never cut what you can untie.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.