If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

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 perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.