Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.