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- Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
- There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
- I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.