Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.