We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

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

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.