Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

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

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.