Love truth, but pardon error.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.