Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.