All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.