The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.