The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.