Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.