The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!