It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.