The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
So perish all who do the like again.
Beauty draws us with a single hair.