It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.