General Sayings

Their rabbis should be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.

Why call her inferior, who gives birth to kings?

I hope that the verdict will call for the death penalty.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

The success of charlatans, sorcerors, and alchemists—and all those who abuse public credulity—is founded on errors in this type of calculation.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

If my own son were guilty like you, I should lead him with my own hands to the stake.

No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Shit in your bed and make it burst.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

It is my duty to give to the poor and make the miserable happy.

I have not come here for such reasons. I have come to take away their gold.

The celestial sphere is finite and spherical.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much, to contradict seldom, and to use all the good manners one can.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the too frequent changes of officers.

This unfortunate difference of color, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the emancipation of these people.