Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.
Fame is a heavy burden.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.