There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

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.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.