At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath,
high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us.
It's not until the second or third class reunion
that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Experience is the best of schoolmasters,
only the school-fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle, Miscellaneous Essays
Rest is not idleness,
and to lie sometimes on the grass
under the trees on a summer's day,
listening to the murmur of water,
or watching the clouds float across the blue sky,
is by no means waste of time.
John Lubbock, The Use of Life