My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?