Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Silence is the wit of fools.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.