What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked. In answer, Musashi summoned a pupil of his and bid him kill himself by slashing his abdomen with a knife.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the worl