It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

I call architecture frozen music.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy