You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?"

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.