The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. - C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.