Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.