A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.