The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.