Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written