One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

Rare is he who will concede genius.