Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”

“Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des i…”

“I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it …”