Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”