To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass