The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.