I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.