Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.