The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.