Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possib…

'True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.'

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.