Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.