Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.