A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.