“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.