Others

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. St.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R.

 

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R.

 

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... J. R. R.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Their plans were improved with the best advice. J. R.

 

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. E. M.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M.

 

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. E. M.

 

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

 

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. J. R. R.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. J. R. R.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

 

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

 

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

 

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.