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.

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

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.

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.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.