Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the s…

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

I work until beer o'clock.