Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.