“Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.”

“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.”

“Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.”

“There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'”

“The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fa...”

“He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.”

“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”

“The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.”

“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...”