One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.