In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Satire is the disease of art.
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
