“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”

“Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?”

“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

“Your library is your paradise.”

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”