If you pursue happiness you never find it.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.