There is no bore like a clever bore.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.