You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

A bottle of wine was good company.