There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

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.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.