The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.

Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more; He used to wear a long brown coat That buttoned down before.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

Seeing, then, it is no longer the fisherman, the son of Zebedee, but He who knoweth "the deep things of God" (I Cor. ii. 10), the Holy Spirit, I mean, that striketh this lyre, let us hearken accordingly. For he will say nothing to us as a man, but what he saith, he will say from the depths of the Spirit.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

The face the index of a feeling mind.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.