It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it, often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely at an angle.

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

This World is keeping you in bondage, it is a prison from which you must get released, and you should not plan to return to it again and again.

Send forth the child and childish man together and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.

Man has as it were become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent, but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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