"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!"

"Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity."

"The powers that be are ordained of God,"

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."

"By learning to obey, you will know how to command."

"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."