Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

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