The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.