Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.”

“Moral education, which ought never,

Bernard looked, and then quickly, with a little shudder, averted his eyes. His conditioning had made him not so much pitiful as profoundly squeamish. The mere suggestion of illness or wounds was to him not only horrifying, but even repulsive and rather disgusting. Like dirt, or deformity, or old age. Hastily he changed the subject.

in any circumstances, to be rational.”

Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity.”

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

“Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls ‘the soul,’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him . . .”

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain.