Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.