That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.