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.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.