Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Men still have to be governed by deception.