If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.