She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?