After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

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

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.