The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.