If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

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

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)