"What is tolerance? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon our follies."

"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize."

"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the times."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."