Now that education is so easy, men are drilled for greatness, just as dogs are trained to retrieve. In this way we've discovered a new sort of genius, those great at being drilled. These are the people who are mainly spoiling the market."

"He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way."

"As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word."

"He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp."

A man is never more serious than when he praises himself.