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

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.

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?

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.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Life's more amusing than we thought.