Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

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.

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