VN (in Pnin) on one of the inherent difficulties of absentmindedness:

"Because of a streak of dreaminess and a gentle abstraction in his nature, Victor in any qeue was always at its very end. He had long since grown used to this handicap, as one grows used to weak sight or a limp."

Max Beerbohm on a sort of political philosophy:

"Anarchistic? Yes; and I have no defence to offer, except the rather lame one that I am a Tory anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased—short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed."