I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

Do not dare not to dare.