Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
