How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.