“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit”

“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”

“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”

“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction”