Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.