Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

A on his lips and not-A in his heart.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on...