Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.