A good imitation is the most perfect originality

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.