Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.