If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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