We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.