Paradoxes are the only truths.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.