If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

'...I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mell…

For 'im that doth not work must surely die; But that's no reason man should labour all 'Is life on one same shift - life's none so long.

'...it is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'' (p. 2)

'Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.'