Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.