If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.