“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones”

“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools”

“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted”

“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out”

“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age”

“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide”