All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.