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

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.