What is fruitful alone is true.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.