It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?