When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H. G.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H. G.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

Go away. I'm all right.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of Nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

God damn you all: I told you so.