If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

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

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.