A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.