There Are Occasions On Which All Apology

A Book Should Teach Us To Enjoy Life, Or To Endure It.

Few Of Those Who Fill The World With Books, Have Any Pretensions To The Hope Either Of Pleasing Or Instructing. They Have Often No Other Task Than To Lay Two Books Before Them, Out Of Which They Compile A Third, Without Any New Material Of Their Own, And With Very Little Application Of Judgment To Those Which Former Authors Have Supplied.

I Hate Mankind, For I Think Myself One Of The Best Of Them, And I Know How Bad I Am.

Knowledge Is More Than Equivalent To Force. The Master Of Mechanics Laughs At Strength.

Praise, Like Gold And Diamonds, Owes Its Value Only To Its Scarcity. It Becomes Cheap As It Becomes Vulgar, And Will No Longer Raise Expectation Or Animate Enterprise.