Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.