Once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song.

-- Oberon, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (II, i)

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. - Sir William Jones.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. - Dr. Seuss

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble‐sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand‐to‐hand‐combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Douglas Adams

What measures, then, shall we adopt? What machine employ, or what reason consult by means of which we may contemplate this ineffable beauty; a beauty abiding in the most divine sanctuary without ever proceeding from its sacred retreats lest it should be beheld by the profane and vulgar eye? We must enter deep into ourselves, and, leaving behind the objects of corporeal sight, no longer look back after any of the accustomed spectacles of sense.

-- "An Essay on the Beautiful", Plotinus

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

-- "Tao Te Ching", Lao Tze

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

-- "Through The Looking Glass", Lewis Carroll

The best type of fame is a writer's; it's enough to get you a table in any restaurant, but not enough that your dinner gets interrupted. - Dorothy Parker

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life : It goes on. - Robert Frost

Suicide kills two people. That's what it's for.

-- "After The Fall", Arthur Miller

I hope you find peace, my friend. You will be missed.