To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.