If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.