Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

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

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.