One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

All children are essentially criminal.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.