Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.