We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.
All is to be doubted.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
De omnibus dubitandum
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
The animal testing regime. . . is utterly futile
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.