"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions."

"Power has its duties as well as its rights."

"half Christendom worships a Jewess, and the other half a Jew…. Which is the superior race, the worshipped or the worshippers?"

"The greatest wisdom is to be ignorant that you are wise."