Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

If readers recognized that he was an ass, unaware of his own stupidity, ''your work will be a triumph.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot