With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.