Simon

“Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

“Materialists believe that absolutely everything, even the formal structures of culture and the intentional structures of consciousness, can be reduced without remainder to an ensemble of mechanistic interactions among intrinsically mindless physical elements; and I suppose anyone capable of believing that is capable of believing practically anything.”
― David Bentley Hart, A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays

“Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
― Edmund Blunden