Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Some men are born posthumously.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.