Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

"No job too big; no fee too big!"

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

You can never do just one thing.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

To add insult to injury.

Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.

What we do not understand we do not possess.