Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

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

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

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?

As nations improve, so do their gods.