In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.