Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

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

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?