Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

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

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.