Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pity on the madness of the multitude.
