The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.