The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.