One Should Have Wit, But Not Wish

About No Subject Is There Less Philosophizing Than About Philosophy.

Morality Without A Sense Of Paradox Is Mean.

A Genuinely Free And Educated Man Should Be Able To Tune Himself, As One Tunes A Musical Instrument, Absolutely Arbitrarily, At His Convenience At Any Time And To Any Degree, Philosophically Or Philologically, Critically Or Poetically, Historically Or Rhetorically, In Ancient Or Modern Form.

One Should Have Wit, But Not Wish To Have It; Otherwise There Will Be Witticism, The Alexandrian Style Of Wit.

Laziness Is The One Divine Fragment Of A Godlike Existence Left To Man From Paradise.