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

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.