Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.