Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

We only half live when we only half think.