To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Sanity is madness put to good use.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.