All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.