Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
All things are difficult before they are easy.