Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.