You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Is there life before death?
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.