Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.