Too much is unwholesome.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

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.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.