Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.