Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

Happiness is never grand.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.