Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

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

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

In every man there is something of all men.

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