When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.