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

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

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

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

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

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

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

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.