I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.