"It is dangerous to make a man see too clearly his equality with brutes without showing him his greatness."

"Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"It is a dangerous thing to make a man believe he is no better than the beasts, for he will soon begin to act as such."

"The most dangerous of all errors is to deny the existence of sin."