I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

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.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

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

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

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.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.