There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.