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

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.