I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.