Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds