Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.