"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ..." — Arthur Schopenhauer

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read 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.