If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

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