“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”
“Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”