"Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage."

"We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their …"

"That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time."

"That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he …"

"A volume, therefore, that contains more words than ideas, like a tree that has more foliage than fruit, may suit thos…"

"With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good book…"

"Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so tru…"

"It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than no…"

"Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if …"

"If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery;…"