Architects cannot teach nature anything.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.