Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.