Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.