Do not read the newspapers.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.