“Out of too much learning become mad.”

“Too much philosophy makes men mad.”

“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”

“In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too”

“You take my hand,
I'll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It's impossible to make it today.”

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.”

“It is not too much to say that when the Great War broke out our Generals had the most important lessons of their art to learn. Before they began they had much to unlearn. Their brains were cluttered with useless lumber, packed in every niche and corner.”

“Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.”

“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start.”