Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.