Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
To reason about love is to lose reason.
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.
It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.