“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...”
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .”
“Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians.”
“A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.”
“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”