Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.