A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.