It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.