There are more fools in the world than there are people.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.