Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.