If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.