Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day