The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.