It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.