“The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?”

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

“Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”

“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”