There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.