Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.