“كل صبي أحمق يستطيع أن يقتل حشرة، لكن كل علماء الأرض لا يستطيعون أن يخلقوا واحدة”

“إنه لا يوجد عالم من علماء الطبيعة يستطيع أن يعرف كل شئ عن حقيقة ذبابة واحدة و خواصها فضلا علي أن يعرف كنة ذات الله … روجر باكون”

“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”

“Life is a constant process of dying.”

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”