"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."

"And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."

". . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"Nothing recedes like success."

"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."

"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"