"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them." — Arthur Schopenhauer

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.