A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.