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

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.