Reprisals Are But A Sad Resource.

Put A Rogue In The Limelight And He Will Act Like An Honest Man.

God! How Men Of Letters Are Stupid.

It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr.

History Is The Version Of Past Events That People Have Decided To Agree Upon.

People Take England On Trust, And Repeat That Shakespeare Is The Greatest Of All Authors. I Have Read Him: There Is Nothing That Compares Racine Or Corneille: His Plays Are Unreadable, Pitiful.