The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.