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.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

In every man there is something of all men.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.