Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.