The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.