Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

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

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

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.

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