the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.