Historians are gossips who tease the dead

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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