Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.