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

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.