Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

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.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

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.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.