God Creates The Animals, Man Creates Himself.

There Are Very Many People Who Read Simply To Prevent Themselves From Thinking.

Theologians Always Try To Turn The Bible Into A Book Without Common Sense.

Many Intelligent People, When About To Write . . . , Force On Their Minds A Certain Notion About Style, Just As They Screw Up Their Faces When They Sit For Their Portraits.

Most Subjects At Universities Are Taught For No Other Purpose Than That They May Be Re-taught When The Students Become Teachers.

Astronomy Is Perhaps The Science Whose Discoveries Owe Least To Chance, In Which Human Understanding Appears In Its Whole Magnitude, And Through Which Man Can Best Learn How Small He Is.