If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.