With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.