We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.