One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.