Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.