Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.