Cats ask plainly for what they want.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.