When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.