In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.