Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.