History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.