Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.