General Sayings

I'm like a ripe stool and the world's like a gigantic anus, and we're about to let go of each other.

Why do you call her inferior, when from her, kings are born?

groped in the dark, misled by many an ignis fatuus, but nature has a weak side, if we can only find it out.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Did you make a convert of the obstinate antivaxinist at Lello?

They'll put us on a ship and haul us to London in a cage, is what they'll do.

He wished he had his POCKETS full, too.

Little bird, if you don't sing I will wait for you to sing.

I would rather lose all my lands than be king of heretics.

I see no point in reading.

Dogs, would you live forever?

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant.

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.