A toast:

To Da Vinci’s notebooks; to Einstein’s preoccupations; to Mozart and to Bach, and to the child who hears a canon for the first time in “Frere Jacques“; to the singularities of chalk and cheese and to the delectabilities of all things, visible and invisible; l’chaim because it is good; to health, for no reason but itself; to men because they are men, to women without explanation, and to the good company of every secular thing in saecula saeculorum, Toast them with their own watchword: Here’s how!

• Robert Farrar Capon