Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.