France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.