There's no defense against stupidity.

Human, all too human.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.