Aldous Huxley

Genius is a child up to the age of ten.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The proper study of mankind is books.

A bad book is as much labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat, when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. No man has ever dared to proclaim his illicit amours so frankly as this same tom caterwauling on the tiles.