Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.