A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers... That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Un libro es como un espejo: si un mono se asoma a él no puede ver reflejado a un apóstol. Carecemos de palabras para hablar con los tontos de sabiduría. Ya es sabio quien entiende a un sabio.