The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.