I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Take care of each other.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.