“Oh what lies lurk in kisses!”
“God will forgive me, that's his business.”
“Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.”
“Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.”
“The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.”
“Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.”
“In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.”
“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
“Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.”
“In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.”
“Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.”
“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.”
“Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.”
“Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”
“The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.”
“While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.”
“The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.”