You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.