Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.