He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

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

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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

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

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