If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.