The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.