We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Music is the pathway to the heart.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.