Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.