That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.
It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.
Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.