Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.