We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".