There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

Manipulation is not of God, it is the highest form of sorcery for it enslave the soul to the will of man.....

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.