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

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.