There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

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.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.