I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: "It might have beans."

Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.

Of trees I am the fig.

Women, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

A good example is the best sermon.

Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?".