"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in ..." — Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.