If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.