This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?