It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.