Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

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

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.