If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.