All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and... - G.K. Chesterton

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."