Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.