A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.