Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.