Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

God will forgive me. It's his job.