The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.