Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope that foul deceitful thing has no part in it.
One cannot weep for the entire world it is beyond human strength. One must...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.