It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

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

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.