One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.