Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.