A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Liberty is a product of order.