Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.