Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?