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By Aldous Huxley

-- Whereas, if they'd only started on moral education… which ought never, under any circumstances, to be rational.

-- Words can be like x-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

-- Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.

-- The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

-- Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as insanity. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

-- Happiness is a hard master – particularly other people's happiness.

-- Christianity without tears – that's what soma is.