“Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.”
“...a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.”
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
“Paper is more patient than man.”
“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
“It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.”