Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.

We must reach out for our full potential. The potential lies in our inner strength.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.