Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.