They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.