He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

... life falls into place only with God.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.