I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.