To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Men still have to be governed by deception.