"The pleasure of reading a book is heightened by the knowledge that it is not a new book."

"Such a view is the apotheosis of Philistinism."

"We often find that people are most insolent and arrogant where they have least reason to be so."

"The shortest follies are the best."

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason, would the human race exist? Would not everyone rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of ex…"