Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.