If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.