I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.