Very few of us are what we seem.
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.