Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Great men never require experience.