Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.