We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.