The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

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

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.