Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

Too much is unwholesome.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Delicacy in woman is strength.