What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.