The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. - Cesare Lombroso

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."