To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.