"The flood made of a million emeralds was ebbing as slowly as the sun was sinking; but the river of human nonsense flowed on forever." "I think modern people have somehow got they're minds all wrong about human life. They seem to expect what Nature has never promised; and then try to ruin all that Nature has really given." "And every truth a man has found out as a man of science is always subtly different from any truth he has found out as a man; because a man's family, friends, habits, and social type have always got well under way before he has thoroughly learnt the theory of anything." "It is wonderful how easily one outlives someone else's crucifixion." "...that timeless clock of all lunatics..." "The next best thing to really loving a fellow creature is really hating him: especially when he is a poorer man, separated from you otherwise by mere social stiffness. The desire to murder him is at least an ackn
...a florilegium of quotations, musings, adventures…