If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an...

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an...

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a...

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a...

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of...

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of...

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those...

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those...

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What...

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What...

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have...

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have...

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is...

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is...

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is...

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of...

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to...

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to...

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams...

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams...

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all...

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all...

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing...

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing...

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never...

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never...

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?