I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

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.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.