In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.