So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.