Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

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.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.