"Style is what gives value and currency..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

“[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.”

“Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.”

“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.”

“I've never let a rhinestone go unturned”

“The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.”

“There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.”

“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”

“By thought I embrace the universe.”