The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.