He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

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.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.