History never repeats itself. Man always does.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.