“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”
“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on”
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice”
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”
“Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times”
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”