To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.