The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.