Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

Humility is the mother of giants.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.