Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.