We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.