Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

The more you know, the more you see

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.