Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.