“The world loves a spice of wickedness”

“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything”

“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it”

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”