The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.