How easy it is to tell tales!

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.