If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.