All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.