The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.