I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

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

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

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

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

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.