A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?

"En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras"

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.