All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Everything should be made as simple as it is, but not simpler.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.