God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

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

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.