Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.