El hombre tenía tal entendimiento que ya casi no servía para nada. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.