People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.