Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.