The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.