The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.