The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?