Sanity is madness put to good use.
To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.