The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.