Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.