To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.