“If one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another”

“It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least”

“One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.”

“What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.”

“The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.”

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”

“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”