“But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.”

“Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.”

“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

“In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.”

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of meaning and purpose as the blind cosmos grinds aimlessly on from nothing to something and from something back to nothing again, neither heeding nor knowing the wishes or existence of the minds that flicker for a second now and then in the darkness.”

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”