If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate hi…

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Disturbers are never popular -- nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action-no matter how grateful they may have been afterwards for its kind services!

Fabricaronles a muchos su grandeza sus malevolos. Mas fiera es la lisonja que el odio, pues remedia este eficazmente las tachas que aquella disimula.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth…