The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.