If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.