There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.