To know nothing is the happiest life. - Erasmus

Nothing can be called unhappy if it fulfils its own nature, unless you would conclude that a man ought to be pitied because he cannot fly about with the birds, and cannot run on four feet like the whole family of beasts, and is not armed with horns like a bull.

Is there anywhere on earth exempt from these swarms of new books? Even if, taken out one at a time, they offered something worth knowing, the very mass of them would be an impediment to learning from satiety if nothing else

Llevad a un sabio a un banquete y lo perturbará o con lúgubre silencio o con preguntas fastidiosas. Introducidle en un baile y os parecerá, danzando, un camello.