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• A bad day sailing is better than a good day at the office.
• We should go metric every inch of the way!
• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby...
• Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely.
  Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth....
• Really to see the sun rise or go down every day...would preserve us sane forever. -- Thoreau
• I consider a day in which I make love only once virtually wasted.
• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!
  In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track....
• In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week, First Day, Part iii...
• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.