Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.