The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.