“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
Attempt translation.”

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

“A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”

“There is a sense in which all law is nothing more nor less than a gigantic confidence trick.”

“Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?”

“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”