Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.