Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.