I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.