Prejudices Are So To Speak The Mechanical

A Man Is Never More Serious Than When He Praise Himself.

To Write Brashly About Some Things, It Is Almost Necessary Not To Know Much About Them.

People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

The Most Perfect Ape Cannot Draw An Ape; Only Man Can Do That; But, Likewise, Only Man Regards The Ability To Do This As A Sign Of Superiority.

We Judge Nothing So Hastily As Character, And Yet There Is Nothing Over Which We Should Be More Cautious.... I Have Always Found That The So-called Bad People Improve On Closer Acquaintance, While The Good Fall Off.