Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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.