The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.