...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

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.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us... Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

I'm fortunate to be able to draw in different styles, but each style demands another approach from the previous.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!