Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour

The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.

Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.