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.

In every man there is something of all men.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.