It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.