All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.