The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

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

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.