If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.