As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.