The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Man is a tool-using animal.

Song is the heroics of speech.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.