The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.