The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.