Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

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

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

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

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.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.