Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass w…

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the clubfooted ghoul come near me.

It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.