No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!. . . He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.
When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.
Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!