The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.