Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.