The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.