"One feels like crawling on all fours..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.”

“Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.”

“Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.”

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

“You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!”

“Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)”

“Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.”

“Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.”