If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.