There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.