When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

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

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.