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.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

The end is where we start from.