It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.