Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.