People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.