History is fables agreed upon.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.