Thought for the Week

"For a long time his [Edward FitzGerald, translator of "Omar Khayyam"] attendance at church had been little more polite observance of social custom, but now he ceased going almost completely. The rector called on him: 'I am sorry, Mr. FitzGerald, that I never see you at church.' FitzGerald replied: 'A man has not come to my years without thinking much on these things. I believe I may say I have reflected on them fully. You need not repeat this visit.' "

--The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes