La vida es el arte de sacar conclusiones suficientes a partir de datos insuficientes. - Samuel Butler

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?