Great intellects are skeptical.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

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

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.