To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

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.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

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

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.