The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.