It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

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

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.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

Men still have to be governed by deception.