Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

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

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.