You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.