A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.