Excess is the common substitute for energy.
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.