“No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.”

“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”

“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”

“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into”

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

“We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

“Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.”