Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

God made the water but men made the wine.