Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.