The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.