It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Books, the children of the brain.