Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The world wants to be deceived.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Bringing children into it was just low, I decided. At least heʹd left puppies out.