Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.