"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently one wishes to know only to talk."

"The last act is bloody, however fine all the rest of the play, — at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end forever."

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

"It is the nature of man to believe, and to disbelieve."

"We must laugh at what we despise, and not at what we fear."