I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.