The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.

You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.