[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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 married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.