Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

That government is best which governs least.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

Imagine what we can imagine!

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.