God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.