It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.