If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.