Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

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

Those who never have time do least

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.