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

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.