“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”

“It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.”

“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”

“LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.”

“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”

“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need”