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

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.