You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.