To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.