If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.