That parasite: the past.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.