The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?