As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

All children are essentially criminal.