Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

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

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.