Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.