One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Satire is the disease of art.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.