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

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.