People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.