Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.